New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. — 544 p. — ISBN10: 0300107749; ISBN13: 978-0300107746.
This extraordinary book is both a richly textured portrait of New Haven, Connecticut, and the story of the rise and fall of American cities. Douglas Rae depicts the reasons for urban decline, explains why government spending has failed to restore urban vitality, and offers suggestions to enhance city life in the future.
Creative Destruction and the Age of Urbanism
UrbanismIndustrial Convergence on a New England Town
Fabric of Enterprise
Living Local
Civic Density
A Sidewalk Republic
End of urbanismBusiness and Civic Erosion, 1917–1950
Race, Place, and the Emergence of Spatial Hierarchy
Inventing Dick Lee
Extraordinary Politics: Dick Lee, Urban Renewal, and the End of Urbanism
The End of Urbanism
A City After Urbanism